[CT Birds] Goldies in CT

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I would like to thank all for your numerous messages on your feeder Goldfinch counts. Had 15 personal e mails sent to me on this subject! Thanks!

>From this, it seems most all the GOLDFINCH concentrations are south of the Rt 84 corridor - If I may steal this saying from our meteorologists.

Their were some GOLDFINCH seen daily in numbers from the Avon area plus a few more north near Rt 84, but thats it from my E replies. One station in Naugatuck had a good count of Redpolls, but seems these birds are  mostly missing from  south of Rt 84 on a daily basis. 
I do believe, and the responses from this question seem to indicate this so far, Goldfinch and Redpolls, (and Siskins) do not like to feed together at feeders, esp on a regular bases when one species dominates. So might we say - the daily continual presence of one species at a feeder tend to discourage  the others? I know for me here in Harwinton, I would get all three species at the feeder early on when the numbers were small, but when one species became numerous and dominant, it tended to chase away the other lesser numerous species. Thus we are seeing more numerous Goldfinch to our south, and more numerous Redpolls to our north. Or something like that...............


Paul Carrier